World Spider Catalog

Genus: Hygropoda Thorell, 1895 | Family: Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Hygropoda gracilis (Thorell, 1891)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019570

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Described:

Distribution: India

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD), Copenhagen = Zoological Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC), Denmark f (13083) - (Sankaran et al., 2026)
Paralectotype: Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD), Copenhagen = Zoological Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC), Denmark 1jf (13083) - (Sankaran et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Dendrolycosa gracilis Thorell, 1891: 63 (Df) Original description

Hygropoda gracilis Jäger, 2011: 36 (T from Dendrolycosa)

Hygropoda gracilis Sankaran et al., 2026: 9, f. 3, 35-36, 38-47 (f)

References

Jäger, P. (2011). Revision of the spider genera Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge 1876, Sphedanus Thorell 1877 and Dendrolycosa Doleschall 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 3046: 1-38. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3046.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Abraham, A., Williams, S. H. & Asima, A. (2026). New data on Indian nursery-web spiders (Araneae: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 5757(1): 1-25. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5757.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1891). Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24(2): 1-149. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-02-03	Species distribution update		Old value
2026-02-03	New taxonomic reference entry